Ponder On Classical Garden Restoration Of Changshu-Taicang Region And Its Value Oriention

Ancient Residence Garden is not only an indispensable part of the city's geographical features, history and culture, but also an important factor in building a personalized urban landscape image and cultural identity, which plays a big role in the harmonious co-existence between the traditional and the modern urban style. The fabric of ancient scholar's poetic and painting-imaged spatial structure have such characteristics as residence and garden together, great meaning in a small image, deep courtyards, rich opening and closing space, tortuous tour order and scholarly and leisurely style.The construction of the contemporary urban landscape is inevitably affected by many factors, as the regional culture impacted by modernization and commercialization. How should we deal with the problem especially for the alienation between formation and function space in the history garden caused by opening to the public and repaired or mimicked construction for ancient garden style? What's the value faced to the ancient garden of recovery? It's seriously and imminent to consider this issue which is complex. Tentative discussion of this article is based on this.The landscape elements in the classical garden space should be protected by the way of rehabilitation and repair. On the one hand, the principle of "recover as the original" should be followed to strengthen its original landscape features and make it seem "real". On the other hand, based on the recovery, we should also consider how to integrate the mechanism of modern recreational facilities into the garden, and make them "melt" instead of "separated", which is the subject of this paper. In this article, the garden with the typical characteristics of southern garden in Ming and Qing dynasty in Changshu and Taicang are selected as the analysis objects. We take Yan garden, Xukuo garden, Shuiwu garden in Changshu, and Nan garden, Yanshan garden in Taicang as the cases to discuss the restoration of ancient landscape, to find the focus that makes the prosthetic garden in the two places blending appropriately with each other, thus provide certain reference for further research of ancient garden recovery.By detailed interpretation on the cases, this article finally described the restoration tendency of the two kind of garden, analyzed the landscape image and functional transformation for the original and restored ancient garden from the aspect on plants, architecture, rocks, water and the spatial pattern. The author holds the opinion that tenacious attitude shouldn't be insisted on "Rehabilitation" and "Protection", which created many unreasonably "antique landscape", and it's easily misunderstood. Simulation on the "image" is paramount for ancient garden restoration,according to various literature, following the other specific historical landscape of the region, with specific social and cultural background, using similar landscaping material, constructing by traditional technique and processes, to recover original features and landscaping elements as much as possible. Since the old facilities and functions of the ancient garden is insufficient to satisfy the modern life, to import new landscape elements appropriately is necessity. However, a contradiction between the new landscape elements and ancient garden style is inevitably. So how to make use of the difference above to constitute historic landscape features for the garden and its environment, needed to be study in the future.